About Chain Reaction

How it started

Not too long ago, ePIC rolled out the SC200 Mining Rig for the Siacoin network. This milestone was the culmination of hard work and perseverance of a small, but talented team. Now, looking back, we are so proud of this achievement. It is easy for industry arm-chair quarterbacks to downplay the efforts it takes to design and to produce a mining rig. They would often say, “it’s just a few lines of code.” That may be so for an algorithm, but math alone is not enough to make a profitable mining rig.

From concept to reality, the path to producing a product requires many steps:

• designing, fabricating, and testing the mining ASIC
• integrating all the components on the PCB
• validating the performance and power of the hashboard
• modeling the air flow and heat dissipation through the chassis of the rig
• developing firmware to control the performance of the rig
• writing software APIs to communicate with the external world
• implementing factory tests for quality control